{"id":20432,"date":"2020-12-23T16:05:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T15:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/?post_type=opere&#038;p=20432"},"modified":"2021-03-17T16:23:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T15:23:44","slug":"the-frangipane-fortress","status":"publish","type":"opere","link":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/opere\/the-frangipane-fortress\/","title":{"rendered":"Life in the Colosseum in the Middle Ages. #2 \u2013 The Frangipane Fortress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">An important family with ties to the Colosseum in the Middle Ages is the <b>Frangipane <\/b>clan, who took up residence inside the ancient edifice and erected a <b>fortress<\/b>, the earliest evidence of which dates to 1133. The fortress occupied <b>11 arcades on the first and second tiers<\/b> on the Colosseum\u2019s northeastern side, allowing maximum visibility over an area stretching from the Velian Ridge to the Caelian Hill. It consisted of a <b>defensive tower<\/b> located at the amphitheater\u2019s original eastern entrance and a <i>chemin de ronde<\/i> along its southern face, from which the two outermost galleries had already disappeared. There are still some traces of this fortified walkway: along the top of the inner ring on the monument\u2019s first floor, the cavities that once housed the <i>chemin de ronde<\/i>\u2019s supporting beams can still be seen.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">The palace\/fortress was part of the well-known defensive system used by the baronial families of Rome, in constant conflict with one another for control of the city. In this case, the territory in question stretched from the Palatine Forum and Colosseum valley up to the entrance to the Lateran Palace, where the Pope resided. Over the course of the 13<sup>th<\/sup> century, the Frangipane clan eventually lost control of their fortress, having been ousted by the noble Annibaldi family, who occupied the site until the late 14<sup>th<\/sup> century.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":19333,"template":"","collezioni":[86],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opere\/20432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opere"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/opere"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opere\/20432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22699,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opere\/20432\/revisions\/22699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"collezioni","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collezioni?post=20432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}